Garchomp Pop9

[ashinto]

I saw that this card could have some potential due to DCE, has anyone seen any potential at all?

 

[skovtrold]

can you please post a reference? I'm badly enlightened by the big poké-news out there, so I don't know how the cards from pop9 looks like.. :=

 

[ashinto]

here's a link to it

http://pokegym.net/tower/

 

[Ghost spread]

Mabey. I personly perfer the one from SV.

 

[Deoxys Cool Form]

Nah, I really don't rate it. First attack is just dodgy like Seaking, and 4 DCE only goes so far for the second attack. You lose one a turn, and you have to get one a turn. Getting an unsearchable card a turn isn't as easy as it sounds. Weakness will be crushed by Luxchomp. SV one is the best, then MT then this. If you want to play the stage 2 Garchomp just play the SV deck.

 

[flariados]

Don't really like it because with an expert belt it will still struggle to ko most stage two's. You could run crobat G with it and with the spread and expert belt, it could have potential. It's just such a shame that the first attack is so crap.

 

[V1c10u5]

The first attack is terrible. The second attack is mediocre. as a normal poke, even if you wanted to make a deck out of it, Heatran lvX couldnt help you because of typing, nor could any of the common techniques used for energy retrieval. 100, 120 with belt, is mediocre in a speedy stage 2 dominated format, especially with discard involved.
Garchomp SV is better by far, which is why the POP9 one, even if it were viable, doesn't see any play

 

[jeffrey123]

I dont like it.

First attack is horrible.
2nd attack...takes too long to use

 

[Dennis Hawk]

If you're playing lock variant (Garchomp Lv.X + Ampharos PL) then you might want to drop one of these in. Get in a spread without risk of being sprayed or bad flips with Garchomp Lv.X's power, this is the card that provides alternative method without futher teching.

That being said, I'd go with 3 Garchomp SV in most other Garchomp decks.

 

[ShadowGuard]

If you're playing lock variant (Garchomp Lv.X + Ampharos PL) then you might want to drop one of these in. Get in a spread without risk of being sprayed or bad flips with Garchomp Lv.X's power, this is the card that provides alternative method without futher teching.

That's right, I made some good experiences with it (5-2 at Benelux Cup, but unfortunally we only had top 8 to 100 masters). It also gives an option to do some solid damage if the opponent stacks energy to his active Pokémon. 2 SV and 1 of this one together with Ampharos is a good play imo.